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Overview

Tuition $27,140
Licensure pass rate (2025) 80.36%
Duration 4 years
A bachelor's-level nursing degree that prepares graduates for RN licensure and broader leadership, community-health, and evidence-based-practice roles. Many hospitals now require the BSN for advancement.

Career outlook

Employers hire BSN-prepared registered nurses for direct patient care as well as roles requiring expanded leadership, research, and community-health competencies across nearly every healthcare setting.

Getting in

What Central Methodist University-College of Liberal Arts and Sciences asks for, taken from its own admissions page.

Minimum GPA 3.0
Recommendation letters 1
Apply through School application
Seats per cohort 40

What you'll need

  • Background check
  • Drug screen
  • Immunizations
  • CPR certification
  • Prerequisite courses

Traditional BSN at Fayette: cumulative GPA 3.0 on at least 53 hours plus science sub-GPA 2.5; prerequisites (biology, anatomy, physiology, microbiology, chemistry, statistics) with C or better in at most two attempts. Separate BSN application with criminal background check and an Academic Reference Form from a non-nursing faculty member; maximum 40 per cohort, two cohorts per year. No entrance exam stated; NCLEX first-time rates 80.36% (2025), 94.12% (2024).

Checked Oct 2026 on the school's site. Requirements change each cycle, so confirm before you apply.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites you'll need to meet to apply to this program at Central Methodist University-College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Open a category to see each one.

College courses

7

Health and background checks

4

Application basics

2

Paths

Routes into BSN. The first step is where you enroll today.